Seoul virus (SEOV) is a species of hantavirus that can cause a form of hemorrhagic fever.
It is carried by rats and accounts for ~25% of cases of hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome in Asia.
Hantaviruses are single-stranded, enveloped, negative sense RNA viruses in the Bunyaviridae family which can kill humans.
They normally infect rodents and do not cause disease in these hosts. Humans may become infected with hantaviruses through contact with rodent urine, saliva, or feces.
Viral hemorrhagic fevers (VHFs) are a diverse group of animal and human illnesses in which fever andhemorrhage are caused by a viral infection. VHFs may be caused by five distinct families of RNA viruses: the families Arenaviridae, Filoviridae, Bunyaviridae, Flaviviridae, and Rhabdoviridae.
Virus classification is the process of naming viruses and placing them into a taxonomic system. Similar to the classification systems used for cellular organisms, virus classification is the subject of ongoing debate and proposals.
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